Abdulrahman.

Professional timeline

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  1. May–Jul 2024

    QCRI · aiXamine

    aiXamine architecture connecting open model providers through Hugging Face and commercial models through APIs
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    Software Engineering Intern in Doha. Robustness evaluation across 14 models and 62 distribution shifts.

  2. August 2024

    University of Michigan

    Michigan Stadium
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    Started at Michigan in August 2024. B.S. Computer Science, focused on computer architecture and AI. Expected graduation: May 2027.

  3. May–Oct 2025

    Photonic circuit research

    Actual photonic circuit layouts from Figure 3 of the PICasso paper
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    NJIT ACAD Lab. Generating, simulating, and optimizing silicon photonic devices.

  4. Sep 2025–Jan 2026

    Michigan Cybersecurity Lab

    University of Michigan maize block M on a navy background
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    Research into iterative jailbreaks, session context, and similarity hashing. Evaluated 17 embedding models.

  5. May–Sep 2026

    Software engineering at Visa

    Visa internship acceptance animation
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    Built a production Risk AI Assistant and helped reduce a daily data backfill from 18 hours to 20 minutes.

  6. 2026

    PICasso · Publication

    The actual PICasso framework diagram, Figure 1 of the paper
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    PICasso: An AI-Enabled Design Framework for Autonomous Optimization of Silicon Photonic Devices. Read the public paper on arXiv.

  7. August 2026–present

    Teaching EECS 370

    EECS 370 simulator showing CPU registers and instruction fields
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    Instructor Aide for computer organization at the University of Michigan.

  8. Current projects

    Academic dashboard

    Actual academic dashboard with sample assignments and calendar data
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    Canvas assignments, Calendar, and Reminders in a private planning workspace. Sign-in required. Capture uses sample data.

  9. Current projects

    Flyer → Calendar

    Actual Events app with a fictional sample event
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    Upload a flyer, review the extracted details, and approve it into Google Calendar. Sign-in required. Capture uses demo data.

  10. Current projects

    Signal Ledger

    Actual deployed Signal Ledger fallback preview
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    Public-market research with evidence and scenario ranges. The research backend is currently offline; this is the deployed illustrative preview.

  11. Current projects

    Orbits

    Actual Orbits focus timer
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    A focus timer with adjustable duration, pause, reset, and an audible finish.